You can be in a nonprofit organization. You can serve your FELLOW MAN in a VARIETY of other ways. You don't NECESSARILY have to win political office.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the WORLD, but I can sure pick SMART COLLEAGUES.
The RELATIONSHIP to one's fellow MAN is the relationship of PRAYER, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the STRENGTH for one's striving.